SNITCH (15) The Pavilion, Galashiels
Let’s get a couple of things straight from the start. This is not a rom-com about middle class shoplifters, neither is it a smash ’n’ grab action overload, starring The Rock. Instead, it confronts a...
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ANCRUMWood showFurniture-makers’ collective Real Wood Studios is getting ready for a summer celebration of locally-produced furniture and crafts. The works of resident craftsmen Stephen Finch, Ross...
View ArticleCaddonfoot prize-giving
A busy year for Caddonfoot Youth (formerly Sunday school) ended with the annual prize-giving and presentation in the church.Youngsters studied the Old and New Testaments, raised £220 for Christian...
View ArticleYoungsters bearing up at picnic
Pre-school children from Galashiels nurseries and playgroups held their teddy bears’ picnic last Tuesday when more than £100 was raised for Aberlour Options, St Boswells. The photograph shows the...
View ArticleBus jobs boost ... but Munro’s misses out
A bus firm is to create 20 jobs at a new St Boswells base after winning contracts worth £10.4million with Scottish Borders Council.But Perryman’s gain is Munro’s loss, with the Jedburgh company...
View ArticleColonials’ Robert wins over Souters
It was a lyric by his musical hero Tom Waits that summed up this year’s Selkirk Common Riding for the town’s Colonial Society standard bearer.“It’s a great line – ‘If you get far enough away, you’re on...
View ArticleStudents celebrate in Galashiels
Heriot-Watt University’s graduation ceremony in Galashiels provided a colourful procession last Friday.New Heriot-Watt chancellor Dr Robert Buchan, in gold robes, conducted the ceremony in St Paul’s...
View ArticleLumley wows Melrose
Both the sun and some of Britain’s biggest literary names were on shimmering form at this year’s Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival.The packed programme saw crowds flock to around 50 events staged...
View ArticleSun smiles on Yetholm as crowds turn out for Stob Stanes
“Pretty much perfect” was how 2013 Bari Gadgi Anders Cameron described this year’s Stob Stanes ride-out at Yetholm last Wednesday .The Bari Gadgi and Bari Manushi Stephanie Cockburn led a cavalcade of...
View ArticleDinner the right ingredient for Inner Wheel’s birthday bash
Members of the Inner Wheel Club of Galashiels marked the club’s birthday with a dinner at the Kingsknowes Hotel.Visitors had travelled from the eastern Borders, Dalkeith and Musselburgh to join in the...
View ArticleGolden day for Cardrona Scouts
Five Cardrona Scouts have been awarded Chief Scout Gold Awards – the first such honours to be achieved by members of the Cardrona group.Group members have been busy during Community Scout Week,...
View ArticleFloral Flodden commemoration
Nine churches from either side of the border are working together in a rolling programme of flower festivals to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Flodden. The event at Norham’s St Cuthbert’s Church,...
View ArticleRodgerson Casts his way into Selkirk’s history
It has been a 25-year wait for Martin Rodgerson but his time as Standard Bearer past as quickly as the wind through Selkirk on Friday morning. From a family steeped in the Common Riding tradition,...
View ArticleThe Longest Day video challenge
IT’S HERE! Welcome to the longest day of the year, the summer Solstice, and we want you to mark it by sending us in your videos.Our digital content manager Kevin Janiak has set the ball rolling with a...
View ArticleLast month a machine saved my life
The first responder who saw one of his employees saved by a cardiac machine being piloted in the Borders has backed it being rolled out nationally.Neil Redpath saw first hand how the mobile analyser,...
View ArticleBeauty spot being ‘blighted’
“Lazy” picnickers are blighting a Galashiels beauty spot by leaving their rubbish behind, it has been claimed. Fed-up Boleside resident John McDevitt wrote to The Southern about constantly picking up...
View ArticleSport trust chief facing challenging times
Ten years old this September, Borders Sport and Leisure Trust has grown year-on-year, but the current economy is putting that at risk.As a social enterprise, all profits are ploughed back into the...
View ArticleHip op patients gain from recovery project
Patients undergoing hip and knee operations at Borders General Hospital have been back on their feet in no time, thanks to a new project.The Enhanced Recovery Programme, the first of its kind in a...
View ArticleMobile coverage campaign plea
Borderers are being urged to help a campaign to improve mobile phone coverage in the region. They are asked to download the RootMetrics app onto their smartphone and use it to report what the signal...
View ArticlePetition pavement call leads to letter
Petitions committee chairman Alex Nicol is to write to the Galashiels landowner of a Mossilee Road site requesting a 15-metre section of pavement be built alongside it. Petitioner Ian Stephen argues...
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